Culture File

Singer, composer and Irish wake enthusiast, Róis, on a few of her favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

New essays from Tadhg O'Sullivan on the agit-horror film, Threads; Orti Gat on the rebirth of the Turner prize, and Paddy Woodworth on Irish nature poetry, as well as Outlandish's theatrical rethink for our moment of Gorky's Summerfolk, at Dublin Theatre Festival.

Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for inclusion on the Naturalist's Bookshelf is Windfall, an anthology of Irish nature poetry edited by Jane Clarke.

Tadhg O'Sullivan remembers his initiation into the horrors of nuclear armageddon via the 80s BBC TV program, Threads.

Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk, premiered in St Petersburg in 1904, gets refocused on the world of today in Dublin-based Outlandish's Dublin Theatre Festival show, Global Desires.

What use is the Turner prize for contemporary art? Plenty, decides Orit Gat in her latest Voice Notes.

Artist and filmmaker, Mikhail Karikis tells us about some of the sweet things in his cultural diet.

Meet the would-be "artisanal white noise" mogul who is opening up the functional sound market with his app Fuzzzel; musicologist Jeremy Dibble on the Down-born composer and conductor, Hamilton Harty, and pianist, composer and musical right arm to Gil Scott Heron, Brian Jackson on music, justice and the legacy of Alice Coltrane.

Working with artists such as composer, Owen Pallet, harpist, Mary Lattimore, pianist Kelly Moran and nature recorder, Chris Watson, Christopher Weingarten is exploring the market for "artisanal" white noise with his Fuzzzel app.

An unpublished masterpiece by Down-born star of the 20th century British musical world, Hamilton Harty, gets an overdue outing.